Critical Realism for Welfare Professions (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kjørstad, Monica; Solem, May-Britt

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism. This is the first book to present and discuss how critical realism can contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social work. As a theory of science that includes normative theories and emphasises method-pluralism and holistic thinking, critical realism is applicable to a world of poverty, global health problems and social conflicts.

Contributors to this book present a realist perspective on social work. The connection between critical realism and social work is illuminated through a theoretical introduction in Part 1. Part 2 covers the specific topics of normativity, interdisciplinarity and education. Part 3 presents practical/empirical examples from contemporary research in social work, using different approaches based on critical realism.

As critical realism can contribute to a useful and realistic approach to research and practice, this book is essential reading for professionals, academics and students working in different fields of social work and health care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315517520
• Artikelnr.: 49041477

Autorenporträt

Monica Kjørstad is Associate Professor in Social Work at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Her interests are social administration and planning, leadership and implementation issues connected to social work, welfare and human rights. She holds a PhD in social work and social policy. May-Britt Solem is Associate Professor in Social Work at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. She has constructed and now coordinates the Master Program in Family Therapy. Her current research is a longitudinal study of parenting practices and stress and sons' transitions to adulthood. She holds a PhD in psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Editors' preface
Contributors
PART I
Chapter 1. Toward an in-depth understanding of professional social and
welfare work (Monica Kjørstad and May-Britt Solem)
Chapter 2. Basic concepts in critical realism (Monica Kjørstad and
May-Britt Solem)
PART II
Chapter 3. Normativity in the social sciences and professions (Andrew
Sayer)
Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary work in a critical realist perspective (Berth
Danermark)
Chapter 5. Learning to absent the absent: critical realism and social work
education (Stanley Houston and Lorna Montgomery)
PART III
Chapter 6. Understanding the dynamics between professional social and
welfare work and social politics: a critical realist perspective (Monica
Kjørstad)
Chapter 7. Encounters uncovered: implementing critical realism and domain
theory in ethnographic research with young masculinities (Harry Lunabba)
Chapter 8. Parenting stress and coping practices in a critical realist
perspective (May-Britt Solem)
Chapter 9. Positions of young people in child welfare: "TMSA" in research
practice (Elina Pekkarinen)
PART IV
Chapter 10. Theory and practice as a dynamic relation (Monica Kjørstad and
May-Britt Solem)